Friday mornings are usually the cheeriest time of the week, just hours away from the weekend.
Alas
for pro-life advocate, Mark Houck, and his family, last Friday was anything but
joyous.
At
7 a.m., the father of seven was woken by a SWAT team of heavily armed FBI agents
Mark’s
wife, Ryan-Marie, said she pleaded with the FBI agents to be calm, owing to the
presence couple’s seven young children.
Alas,
those pleas fell on deaf ears.
Ryan-Marie recounts
the raid as follows:
A
“SWAT team of about
25 came to my house with about 15 vehicles and started pounding on our
door."
"They
said they were going to break in if he didn't open it. And then they had about
five guns pointed at my husband, myself, and basically at my kids,"
The
“kids were all just screaming. It was all just very scary and traumatic.”
After
asking them why they were at the house, the agents said they were there to
arrest Mark.
When
Ryan-Marie asked for their warrant, “they said that they were going to take him
whether they had a warrant or not.”
When
Ryan-Marie protested saying “you can’t just come to a
person’s house and kidnap them at gunpoint,” the FBI agreed to get the warrant from one of their vehicles.
Mark
asked her to get him a sweatshirt and his rosaries, but when she returned, they
already had loaded him into a vehicle.
They
provided Ryan-Marie with the first page of the warrant and said they were taking him to “the
federal building in downtown Philadelphia.”
So what was Mark Houck’s crime that merited an emergency raid and arrest by armed law enforcement personnel?
Was
he plotting a terror attack or assassination on US soil later
that day?
Was
preparing to flee to a country that doesn’t have an extradition treaty with the
US after committing a heinous crime?
Was
he a serial killer who was on the prowl for his next potential victim?
Was
he in possession of weapons of mass destruction?
As the Iron Lady Thatcher once said “No. No. No”
Federal court documents reveal that Houck was arrested
on the charge that on two occasions he assaulted a 72-year-old volunteer at the
Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Philadelphia.
The incident occurred on Oct. 13, 2021, almost a year ago.
Ryan-Marie said The District Court in
Philadelphia investigated and dismissed
the charge earlier this year.
Ryan-Marie
says Mark often spoke outside of abortion clinics and
occasionally took their 12-year-old son along
On
one occasion, a man “came into [the son’s] personal space", and prompting
Mark in a bid to protect his son “shoved him away”
She
insists the man suffered no injuries however yet tried to sue Mark.
After
his Friday arrest, Houck appeared before the U.S. Eastern District Court in
Pennsylvania.
The
Eastern District of Pennsylvania U.S. Attorney’s Office wrote in their Friday
press release that Mark was indicted for violating the Freedom of
Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, which “makes it a federal crime to use
force with the intent to injure, intimidate, and interfere with anyone because
that person is a provider of reproductive health care.”
Authorities
released Houck later that day, but he now faces felony charges. If convicted, Houck could have up to
an 11-year prison sentence, and fines of up to $350,000.
A
GiveSendGo campaign for
the Houck family has raised over $127,000.
This
isn’t the first incident of its kind.
Since Biden was inaugurated, his Department of Justice and the FBI have targeted Trump supporters, conservatives, and pro-lifers
The
DOJ charged
social media influencer Douglass Mackey with interference during the
2016 presidential election. In reality, he made memes mocking Democrats and
shared them on Twitter.
The FBI seized the cell phones and computers belonging to Trump’s
former lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and his aide, despite not charging them.
Parents
who opposed the Critical Race Theory being taught in school were labeled domestic
terrorists.
The
FBI raided
the homes of personnel associated with Project Veritas including the
organization's founder, James O'Keefe. Veritas had reported on a diary written
by Joe Biden's daughter, Ashley, in which she revealed, that Biden behaved
inappropriately with her.
The DOJ arrested former Trump advisor and Democrat Critic,
Steve Bannon, for refusing to cooperate with the January 6th probe.
Trump
trade aide, Peter Navarro, was arrested at Washington Airport and placed
in leg irons. Navarro sued the January 6 Committee, he
claimed executive privilege in his communications with the president.
The FBI also arrested a leading Republican candidate for governor
of Michigan Ryan Kelley for participating in the January 6th protests.
The
FBI seized the phone of former Trump
attorney John Eastman in a parking lot. Eastman wasn’t even presented
with a warrant.
The FBI searched the home of former Trump DOJ official Jeff
Clark. a day before the January 6 Committee claimed Clark had a role in the
‘insurrection’.
The
Biden administration has also targeted the January 6th protestors.
Some were placed in solitary
confinement for prolonged periods of time. One was tormented to the
extent that he was driven to suicide.
Finally,
the FBI conducted an
unprecedented raid on President Trump’s Mar-A-Lago home.
In
contrast, BLM rioters who caused considerable damage to
property and lives in cities across America in 2020 faced little or no legal
ramifications. The same holds true for thugs who vandalized churches
and pregnancy centers and also for
hoodlums who tossed a Molotov cocktail into the
offices of a pro-life group. FBI doesn’t seem concerned about the Supreme Court
leaker who compromised the integrity of the
highest court in the nation.
The
FBI seems to be functioning like secret police operating in a
totalitarian state.
It is customary for the secret police to target dissenters with surveillance and unannounced raids. Prolonged detention without a reason is common with Habeous Corpus rights violated. The media functions as stenographers for the state.
The
law is enforced selectively - dissenters were punished for the pettiest of
infractions while serious crimes of loyalists are ignored.
There are classified dossiers on persons of importance. Those who dare to challenge the status quo are reminded of their past indiscretions or secrets or crimes.
Effectively political opposition is outlawed.
This
is exactly what the DOJ and FBI are doing.
The
secret police have no place in one of the world’s leading democracies.
It
is therefore essential that the GOP probe and replace the current leadership of
the DOJ and FBI.
The
swamp won’t go quietly,
Dissenters
will be reminded about the secret dossiers, and individuals will be targeted with
raids, confiscations, and arrests. The media will peddle paranoia and cheer this
resistance to reform.
The
big question is the GOP is up to the challenge
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